Robots
5 Curious Events That’ll (Possibly) Happen In 2020
It’s 2020. This is the year of Cyberpunk. Five years after we were all supposed to get flying cars and…
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Tech
CIMON Space Robot Receives “Emotional Intelligence” Upgrade
In the ongoing adventures of everyone’s favorite spherical ISS robot, IBM have revealed that CIMON has been upgraded to CIMON-2,…
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Tech
Company Promises to Make Robot Clones of Anyone You Like
If we’re going to get Skynet up and running, we’ll need more than just breakthroughs in artificial intelligence – we’ll…
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Tech
Japanese Temple Features Mindar, the Android Priest
On February 23, 2019, the Kodaiji temple in Kyoto, Japan unveiled Mindar, the Android Kannon. The robot, its head and…
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Tech
A Particle Robotics System With Many Tiny Robots Working Together
The above video from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology highlights a “particle robotics system,” which consists of many smaller robots…
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Tech
Japan’s Lovot Companion Robot Hopes to Change the World
In 1984, The Terminator promised me a robot apocalypse circa 2029. And yet, we haven’t quite reached our inevitable obliteration…
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Tech
ESA Astronaut Introduces Cimon, the Floating Spherical Robot Aboard the ISS
“What are your commands?” asks the spherical robot as it floats through space. Inch by little inch, we’re getting closer…
Virtual News Anchors Hit Airwaves In China
China’s Xinhua News Agency, alongside the Chinese search engine Sogou.com, have revealed what they call the “world’s first artificial intelligence…
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Tech
Boston Dynamics Shows Off “Parkour Atlas” Robot
There was a time when you may have looked at Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot and thought, hey, I could outrun…
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Space
Japan’s Space Agency Successfully Lands Rovers On Asteroid
I don’t know if anyone noticed, but this website erupted in a nightmare the other day. Stranger Dimensions went down…